Try & try until you cannot succeed.

Would you like to be best of the worst or the worst of the best?

Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.

I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

My advice to Sarah Palin is, you've got a hot bod; don't keep it to yourself. Why wear a pantsuit when you can wear a swimsuit?

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.